This course will familiarize students with fashion as a gendered and embodied phenomenon. The students are especially familiarized to concepts of class, body, gender, sexuality, identity, and ethnicity, and to the intersections of these concepts from the perspective of fashion and dress. After having completed the course the students are capable of explaining how understanding of gender has been shaped through fashion since the emergency of the fashion industries at the late-19th century. Texts range from early writers on fashion (e.g. Georg Simmel and Thorstein Veblen) to more contemporary scholarship published in e.g. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, which defines fashion as “the cultural construction of the embodied identity.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course 5.2-2.3.2018. For further information and enrolment, please see:

If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.